The doctrine of realism

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

Evidently, as we recall our previous statement, the term Realism has been
a bone of contention, open to different interpretations in literature and
philosophy. We also noticed many a factor influencing its main three
types in the Western World, Critical Realism, Naturalism, and Social
Realism. Thenceforward, and due in no small part to economical,
political, and social circumstances, it has reached Arab World since the
nineteenth century.
In the Arab World, the term had been used in the novel and the short
story before it found its way in poesy, receiving both critical acclaim and
opposition, each with a given argument; and decidedly, through the texts
at hand, Arab Literature, fortunately, is teeming with literary giants who
have disenthralled these concepts from certain obscurities, whether in the
form of interpretation and analysis, or in effort of translating major works
in the western canon. Difference exists, and for good reasons; we,
scholars, are responsible to proceed with the researching process,
rummaging through the infinite prospects. Early critics and scholars have
left us a thriving legacy to be once utilzed and twice revisioned.